Word: greenwich
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heroine of the title (Maureen Stapleton) is a movie freak. Not only has she seen 3,000 movies, but the walls of the back room of a Greenwich Village candy store in which she lives are lined with 40 years' worth of movie mags. The room is also burdened with her diabetic husband Roy (Lee Wallace), who has a self-destructive mania for candy bars. To assume that the plot does not exist is merely to follow the playwright's lead, but it is more difficult to avoid Mildred's fantasy encounters with Shirley Temple, Gene Kelly...
...showdown was staged a fortnight ago in the chandeliered Nelson Room of the Trafalgar Tavern hard by the Thames in Greenwich. The Americans had barely unpacked their darts when the wily British indulged in a bit of ye olde "putting off" (psyching your opponent). The white toe-line, they announced, would be set 7 ft. 6 in. from the board and not 8 ft. as in the U.S. U.S. Darter Jack Carr, 39, a pub owner from Hermosa Beach, Calif., responded with some putting off of his own. "We'll continue to shoot from 8 ft.," he said gallantly...
...outsider herself. Her father, David Nemerov, was the owner of a clothing store on Fifth Avenue, her brother Howard a widely respected poet. At 18 she married Allan Arbus, and for nearly two decades they were successful partners in fashion photography. Then they separated. Diane moved to Greenwich Village with her two daughters. Already, she had begun to take photographs that had nothing to do with fashion...
...bleary-looking ex-track star who once won a 26-mile marathon race, then keeled onto a street curb nose first. His still flattened nose is a constant reminder of that day, especially when he walks into a multimirrored bathroom of the 40-room mansion he owns in fashionable Greenwich, Conn. The mansion also sports swastika flags on many of the ceilings, as well as a man-size doll hanging by its neck in the ballroom. When concert tours and promotional appearances do not beckon, Alice can usually be found in his Greenwich "pad," curled up in an armchair with...
Died. George M. Weiss, 77, former general manager of the New York Yankees; in Greenwich, Conn. After joining the club in 1932, Weiss created the farm system out of which grew a Yankee dynasty (19 American League pennants, 15 World Series triumphs). He moved across town in 1961 to serve six years as the first president of the New York Mets...